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Miroslav Ondrícek
Highest Rated: 100% Taking Off (1971)
Lowest Rated: 49% Riding in Cars With Boys (2001)
Birthday: Nov 4, 1934
Birthplace: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Cinematographer who began his career with the emergence of the Czech New Wave in the early 1960s. Ondricek made his professional debut with Milos Forman's 1962 feature, "Talent Competition," beginning an association with the director which has lasted for over 25 years. Ondricek has also worked with countrymen Jan Nemec and Ivan Passer and shot three films for Lindsay Anderson, including his landmark feature, "If" (1968). He left Czechoslovakia with Forman to make "Taking Off" (1971) and has worked regularly in the US since then, winning acclaim for his richly textured work on Forman's "Ragtime" (1981) and "Valmont" (1989).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49% | 66% | Riding in Cars With Boys | Cinematographer | $29.8M | 2001 |
| 62% | 41% | The Preacher's Wife | Cinematographer | $48.1M | 1996 |
| 81% | 84% | A League of Their Own | Cinematographer | $105.1M | 1992 |
| 84% | 89% | Awakenings | Cinematographer | $49.4M | 1990 |
| 60% | 59% | Big Shots | Cinematographer | $2.9M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Distant Harmony: Pavarotti in China | Cinematographer | - | 1987 |
| 89% | 95% | Amadeus | Cinematographer | - | 1984 |
| 71% | 78% | The World According to Garp | Cinematographer | - | 1982 |
| 82% | 87% | Hair | Cinematographer | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zaklęte rewiry | Cinematographer | - | 1976 |
| 82% | 68% | Slaughterhouse Five | Cinematographer | - | 1972 |
| 100% | 84% | Taking Off | Cinematographer | - | 1971 |
| 90% | 87% | If... | Cinematographer | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | The White Bus | Cinematographer | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Blonde in Love | Cinematographer | - | 1965 |